Temporary binder



(ModeL) W. B. LANE, Jr.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

No. 394,496. Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\YILLIAM B. LANE, JR, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,496, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed February 21, 1887. Serial No. 228,443. (Modeh) To all'whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. LANE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have made a new and useful Improvement in Temporary Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a class music, magazines, and other similar matter, in such a manner that they maybe again separated and intermediate parts removed at the i convenience of the user, and is especially adapted to be used in connection with filing devices well known to the art, in which parallel wires or tubes receive sheets of paper through perforations made therein near the margin, such papers when thus laminated being conveniently transferred to the holder or binder in the manner herein described, all of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective of my entire device; Fig. 2, a detail of the combined transfer and retaining wire; Fig. 3, a detail of guard adapted to support the letters on the retaining-wire; Fig. 4:, a detail of part of holder; Fig. 5, a side elevation of holder, showing means of attaching to back of the binder; Fig. 6, a modified form of engaging devices shown in transverse section.

In Fig. 1, a, a b are respectively the covers and back of the binder of common form. To the back of the binder b are riveted the flanged plates 0, adapted to engage similar flanges, d, in the holder. In said figure, E represents the entirety of the holder, the body of which is preferably formed of a plane piece of sheet metal bent to form the perpendicular flange 40 f and the flap the latter being turned around to a plane parallel with the base 8 of the holder, as shown. The flange f and base of the holder are cut to form the slot i, adapted to receive the offset j of the transfer and retaining wire, which is represented as a whole by the letter H, Fig. 2. Said transfer and reof devices designed for compiling letters, bills, sheet- It will be seen that when the wire H is turned up to the position shown in Fig. l the offset j is in a plane parallel with the base of the holder, and the said wire may then be freely slipped forward and disengaged from i the flap g. \Vhen, however, it is turned down to the position shown in Fig. 1, the offsetj prevents the wire H from slipping forward of V the slot Z, and, consequently, from slipping from under the flap g and being disengaged from the holder.

To retain the wire ll in the closed position shown in Fig. 1, the flange is provided with i notches 11, into which the ends of the wires t spring when pressed, latch-fashion, over the clipped corners of the flange f. This wire is bent so that it normally springs into and remains in the notches, with the ends projecting slightly beyond the flange to permit of manipulation. The plates 0 are so arranged with reference to each other that the inner flanged edges slightly converge toward the front or back, and the holder E, when put in place, is consequentlyslightly wedged therein, with the manifest advantage of thereby being retained by such friction in position. I preferably make the flaps g together, somewhat shorter than the body of the holder H.

Of course modifications may be made in my device as above described without departing from the full scope of my inventionas, for instance, the angles of the wire H may be somewhat varied; a groove, as S, Fig. 6, parallel or nearthe upper edge of the flange, may be used instead of the latching-notch n, in which case the ends of the wire H will abut against the concave face of the groove and may be removed therefrom by spreading, as before described. \Vith this arrangement the offset j and slot i may be o1'nitted,it being understood that the length of the wire is such that by a slight spring force the ends normally press against the groove in the flange f in the position shown in Fig. 6.

In Fig. 3 is seen a flat strip of sheet metal with perforations 0, adapted for the introduction of the ends of the wire H. Vhen in use, it slips back to the first angle from the end of the wire and serves as a rest for the contents of the holder.

The papers to be filed may be placed on the Wire H in the first instance and then bodily H, and the latter to engage the same near the ends and thereby hold it in place, substantially as described.

2. In a temporary binder, a holder having open flaps, as g, slot, as z', and flange, as f, in combination with an angular transfer and retaining wire provided with offset J, adapted to pass into the slot when the holder is closed. 3. In a temporary binder, a holder having an open flap, as g, for engaging the body of the transfer and retaining Wire, and flange, as f, provided with slots, as n, for holding the holder closed, substantially as described.

4. In a temporary binder, aremovable angular retaining-Wire, as H, in combination With an engaging element, as open flap g, for temporarily holding the body of the Wire to the'back of the binder, and a projecting element, as flange f, provided with means of engaging the ends of said Wire and thereby holding the device closed, substantially as described.

5. In a temporary binder, the combination of holder E, provided with. hooked flanges d, and plate 0, provided with hooked flanges c, said plates being secured to the back of the binder and adapted to. engage the holder, substantially as described.

WILLIAMB. LANE, JR.

\Vitnesses:

FRANCIS B. DELEHANTY, ALFRED H. ALLEN. 

